Today we started thinking of ideas for our Team X project which is basically a project that simulates a rover landing. This is a competition where you need to drop an egg with whatever design you want so that the egg doesn’t break after 3 drop attempts. We only have a limited amount of money to use and only items our teacher lets us use.
Our group is formed up of 3 people, my two partners are Dori and Layan. Layan was absent the day we were thinking of ideas so me and Dori thought of a straw technique, where we build straws around the egg to shield it when it hits the ground. Today we finished thinking of ideas, calculating the sum of the cost, and finished designing on paper our prototype sketch. I think our biggest challenge would be to repair the straws because our straws are meant to break upon impact.
I think our goals for next class are to buy all the materials and start building our rover.
Our prototype sketch:
